Trivia
Donald Trump has said he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a ban that is due to take effect on Sunday, on the eve of his swearing-in as the 47th US president.
I don’t have an opinion about TikTok or its ban or its reprieve from a ban, because I know pretty much nothing about it.
“The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it’s appropriate. You know, it’s appropriate. We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation,” Trump said in a phone interview with NBC News.
He made similarly remarks hours later to ABC News.
“Well, I have the right as you know, I’m the one who is going to be calling the shots,” he told ABC. “Most likely, I’ll extend for 90 days – you have the extension for 90 days as you probably know. I’ll do that until we figure something out.”
Squeaky baby voice: I have the right, I’m the one who is going to be calling the shots, I can do whatever I want, I’m the boss, I can break all your toys if I feel like it.
Trump previously backed a TikTok ban, but has more recently professed a “warm spot” for the app, touting the billions of views he says his videos attracted on the platform during last year’s presidential campaign.
Soft spot, not warm spot. He can’t even do clichés right. Also yuck. “Warm spot” is disgusting.
This was written by a journalist?
He actually can’t do this… Unless something that looks like a sale is forthcoming.
Kate Klonick has some good writing on this.
I’m equally ignorant about TikTok. The only thing I know is that my sister joined as soon as she heard that Trump wanted to ban it; and that she kept sending me links to videos on it that won’t play, until I asked her to stop (rather more tactfully than that, of course).